Subject: Re: poor performances on cyrix 6x86
To: None <grefen@carpe.net>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/28/1996 09:37:26
>> >> > The 6x86P150+ should be called "6x86P100-" :)

>> >> Are you sure that the caches are recognized and set the same with

>> >Hum, are the caches enabled/disabled by the bios, or NetBSD ?

>> Should be by the BIOS, or not at all! :-)

>If the cyrix chip is probed a 486DLC  the caches are not enabled
>in locore.s unless CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS and CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS are enabled !!

Argh!  You are right.  I thought that wasn't supposed to do anything
unless you enabled an option first.  I was wrong.

Does NetBSD identify your 6x86 as a 486DLC, or as a 486DX?

If 486DLC, we need to update that code.

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